Staff Reporter
A delegation of Marquees and Wedding Halls Association (MWHA) visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) on Thursday and demanded of the government to allow reopening of their businesses as putting ban on holding functions in marquees and marriage halls have resulted in financial crisis for them and rendered thousands of workers jobless.
Luqman Afzal, The Monal, Mukhtar Abbas Paradise Marquee, Sheikh Jamshed Orchid Marquee, Ashraf Shahbaz Blessings Marquee, Bakhtawar Butt Clay Oven Marquee, Waqar Sahi Fortress and Salman Ashraf Hanif Rajput were in the delegation. Tahir Abbasi Senior Vice President ICCI, Khalid Chaudhry, Naveed Malik, Ashfaq Chatha, Faheem Khan and others were also present at the occasion. Addressing the delegation, President ICCI Muhammad Ahmed Waheed said that marquees and wedding halls were generating lot of economic activity as business of many other sectors was linked with this industry. He said these businesses were suffering great losses due to routine expenditures including rent, staff wages and utility bills due to lockdown and government should allow them to reopen to save them from further destruction.
The ICCI President said thousands of workers were earning livelihood from these businesses and keeping them closed would give rise to poverty.
